The recent dénouement of the 25-year Tamil insurgency in Sri Lanka was reminiscent in many ways of the end of the Biafran war in Nigeria in...

If you're a fan of Aster Aweke or Kuku Sebsebe , you'll no doubt enjoy this cassette by Ethiopian vocalist Martha Ashagari. Ärä Bak...

We're all thrilled that Matt Yanchyshyn is back on the scene and posting once more on his blog, Benn Loxo du Taccu , after a long hiatus...

Like Comb and Razor , I seem to be experiencing some difficulty managing to get a post up, not, as in Uchenna's case, because I'm te...

I linked to a video by Senegalese musician Abou Diouba Deh in my last post about Fatou Laobé without realizing that I've had one of his...

Barely known to me until I picked up a few of her CDs in NYC's Little Senegal a few weeks ago, Fatou Laobé is a huge star in Senegal, a...

Since achieving independence from Portugal in 1974, the small west African nation of Guinea-Bissau hasn't been much in the news until re...

I was saddened to hear of the death Sunday of a true master of Ethiopian music, Tilahun Gessesse, who has been the subject of several posts ...

Aku and I recently returned from a trip out East for Installment Two of the Spring Break College Tour . I'm happy to report that she...

I'll be out of town for a week and don't expect to be able to blog, but I wanted to get something in, so this one's a quickie. I...